WHY WE HAD TO LEAVE GALLIPOLI.
EVERY MILITARY DEFECT POSSIBLE.
200 DEATHS IN BLIZZARD AND
10,000 ILL
General Monro in his despatch describ ing the evacuation of Gallipoli, xays :---
The impressions I gathered are sum merised very shortly as follows: The positions occupied by our troops present
THE BRITISH BUDGET.
GERMANY'S SILENCE.
One of the most remarkable features of the German papers recently, has been the entire suppression of certain kinds of news and of comment upon certain unpleasant subjects. Not a single Ger inan newspaper has been allowed to pub lish any of the definite official denials of the Gorman ofheial reports on the Zeppe
raids. As regards comment, remarkable that the papers have only heen allowed to publish brief summaries of Mr. McKenna's Budget, and there have been none of the spirited fictions for which Dr. Helfferich is usually so famous, Almost the only reference to the Budget consiste in a few words the end of a long financial review in the Berlin Lakalanzinger, and they are only to the following
effect
at
ed a military situation unique in history. The mere fringe of the const-line had been socuted.
The beaches and piers upon which they deponded fur, all requirements in personnel and material were exposed The attempte among the Allies--which to registered and observed artillery fire are indeed a bitter necessity in the pre- Our entrenchments were dominated sent sinte of affaire-have been continued almost throughout by the Turks The holdly by the English Finance Minister possible artillery positions were insuf Herr McKenna finds himself in the ex- held slide possessing ever reb moltremely unpleasant situation of having
a possible mili- to reduce by a further painful applica tary defect.
tion of the screw of taxation the enor- Another material factor came promimous deficit which cannot successfully be nently before me The troops on the redeemed by a loan. After important Peninsula had suffered much from vari foodstuffs have already been oppressively taxed, the English Finance Minister finds with beautiful determination along the o other way of escape than to continue
ous causes
(1)-It was not in the first place pos- sible to withdraw then from the abellame path. -swept area as is done when necessary in France, for every corner on, the, Peninsula is expound to hostile fire.
-- (()---They were much enervated from thediscanes which are endemic in that part of Europe in the summer
GERMAN WAR FINANCE
EXPOSED.;
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 26TH 1916.
AMERICA NOW OR NEVER
THE ANXIETIES OF PRESIDENT
WILSON.
President Wilson is biding his time. He is not only a very able man; he is a good can and a just man. Those of us who know something of his mind (grites a special correspondent to the Daily Chronicle) realise very well what it must cost him to maintain diplomatic relations with a Power whose actions are at variauch with the first principles of humanity. He is biding his time, be cause he hopes to render the greatest possible service to the whole world.""
The chief question to this Can the war be brought to an end within mensir ble distance and without risk of recur rence ? Is there any means, short of complete victory by the Allies, which would accomplish the supreme purpose of the war from the Allies point of view on the question of the And here we reach the question the United States,
Todd
A GERMAN VIEW OF THE WAR.
STAFF OFFICER'S CRITICISM OF
ENGLAND
We have received for publication the following translation of a letter recently written by an officer of the German Gen- cral Staff to the diplomatic representa- tive of a neutral country, says The Times It is obviously intended for neutral con- sumption and hears a striking re- semblance to the views disseminated by other German agencies-
The English are as inefficient as the French are efficient. The anti-aircraft guns of the latter are simply marvellous erstaunend gid) and are better than any- thing we possess, and our losses from this arm are as 95 per cent. to 8 per cent. attributable to the English anti-aircraft service, which is thoroughly deficient The air service of the French is generally speaking vastly superior to that of the conglish, whose pilots excluderence to contempt of risk, and indifference danger. In technical skill, desigs of By throwing himself on the side of the engine, construction of machine, and air Central Empire quite unthinkable knowledge the French are undoubtedly act-President Wilson could not shorten ahead of all the combatants in the field. the war. He would only prolong the perusal of the English newspapers the Allies, particularly if he carried he the absorbing topic in England, and But by throwing himself on the side of vestly entertains us Politics seem to other neutral nations with him, he could in recent issues greater prominence was terminate the war within measurable given as to whether or not soldier M.Ps. distance. His difficulty lies, however, in should receive double salaries (doppelt the moral region. He does not seok a bezahl) than to the French attacks near bloody and to this war with a harvest Verdun or the operations in Mesopo of dragon's teeth for his pains; hetamine k
em unable to grasp the earnestly and profoundly hopes to use his The English seem power for the healing of wounds and fact that if we have not yet won this war for an end to war. It is because he be we cannot now lose it. In every ephere lieves that it is within the power of we hold the ground we have gained; the the United States to gain this inexpres northern provinces of France, Belgium, sible benefaction for the world that he Serbia, Poland, the western provinces of think so dangerously, to make his power key, it is true, is invaded through Asis men to forget their hatreds. He wants a out of Gallipoli, and she and her ally the saner, a purer, and a kindlier world to Tigris are strangling the Anglo-Indian
We have lost Kiaochma through
the by conflicting interests and inspired by the spirit of hate and revenge. He is treachery of the Japanese, and our To this end-and who shall AP it wrested from us. but these are, after all,
A DEBACLE APPROACHING: ()In consequence of the losses witich A searching exposure of some of the they had suffered in earlier battles, there boustinge of Dr. Helfferich, the Imperial was a very grave dearth of officers com Finance Minister, in his speech to the petent to take command of man. Reichstag, was made by Mr. Edgar Cram
(In order to maintain the numbers Stock Exchange, at a meeting of the has delayed so long, and as some men Russia, Montonegro are conquered. Tur
borsod, the secretary of the Liverpool needed to hold the front, the Territorial London Chamber of Commerce, Divisions had been augmented by the "It was perhaps natural," said A. felt. He wants war to cease. He wants Minor, but she has turned the British attachment of yeomanry and mounted Cranimond, in commenting upon the Ger brigades. Makeshifts of this nature very
man Minister's boast that our war ex- obviously did not tend to create efficiency penses were 50 per cent higher than the take the place of a world torn asunder forces in Mesopotamia, e
enemy's That Dr. Helfforich should have omitted to mention the fact that the
THE ONLY WISE COURSE,
Other arguments, irrefutable in their German figures represent net expends an idealist, as well na a statesman colonies in Africa have nearly wil been
conclusions, convinced me that a com
to action was the only wise course
pursue.MALAY
d was obvious that the Turks could hold us in front with a small force and prosecute their desigur on Baghdad or Egypt, or both
ture, while the British figures are gross expenditure. The German figures do not include the bulk of the cost of separation allowances, nor do they comprise the amounts advanced to Germany allies In Britain's war expenditurs these items amounted to over 500 millions annually (An advance from the positions we
Dr. Helfferich claimed that the English beld could not be regarded as in reason war taxation had only yielded 7 per cent. able military operation to expect. of war expenditure, but he failed to men- (e) Even had we been able to make tion that many taxes had only just begun an advance in the Peninsula, our posito yield a return, and there was every
tion would not have bean ameliorated to any marked degree, and an advance on Constantinople was quite out of the question
e
not a noble end 1-the President bides his time. He will act when he believes that the right moment has come. And it is only because he believes the right moment has not yet come that he does not act
But, as I have said, the right moment is fast approaching. Before very long it will be for the United States of Amerien case of Now or Never. And the character of America will be judged for at least a generation by its resolution in acting on that moment or by its
opportunity is lost.
minor fields of action, for the final issue will be determined in France and Rus sia, and the restoration of old colonies and the acquisition of new ones will be decided in the final peace, and that pence must be the outcome of the struggle in Europe
reason to believe that in the year to feebleness in postponing ocension till Her fleets keep neutral ships from our
March, 1917, Great Britain would pro- vide at least 400 millions, or 22 per cent, of her total expenditure, out of taxation. ** (d)--Since we could not hope to achieve Germany, he added, had found it im- any purpose by remaining on the Ponin- possible to finance 20 months of war ex- Hula, the appalling cost to the nation in penditure without increasing the circula- volved in consequence of embarking on tion of paper money in the empire by an over-coas expedition with no base over 700 millions, while Great Britain, available for the rapid transit of stores, entering the war without the slightest applies and personnel, made it urgent financial preparation, bid only found it that we should divert the troops locked necessary to increase her paper circula
Peninsula a
tion to the extent of about 100 millions. theatre to props to be more useful The great weakness of the war finance Since therefore. could wes no military of Germany, he declared, in the flood advantage in our continued occupationing of the country with paper money. of positions on the Peninsula, I tele- Altogether there are about £935,000,000 graphed to your lordship that in my of notes in circulation, all of which rest opinion the evacuation of the Puikiasula ultimately, either directly or indirectly, should be taken in hand.
upon the £123,000,000 of gold held by the Reichsbank,
SUPREME ISSUE OF THE WAR..
England may still pride herself on being the mistress of the waves, but she in a mistress past her prime, and her ascendancy no more extends beneath the waves than it does in the air above them.
harbours and prevent our merchant ships from leaving them, but our submarines sweep the sea, and its bed is strewn with To see in what manner President the wreckage of her ships. In our Zeppe line we sail unmolested over English Wilson can act, let us decide what is the idland cities, northern decks, and Scot supreme iseme of this war that is 10 nytish harbours, scattering destruction as the one common interest of all the allied nations; or, another form, the we pass, and if the lives of innocent ron- one decisive and unifying opinion of the combatants are sacrificed through the the unintentional action of our airmen, what majority of the belligerent nations. It is of our women and children who might this: That Germany shall be rendered be faced with starvation and death powerless to conspire again against the through the blockade of on-consts, and peace of the world
the relentless withholding of the necer
aries of life f
This is the supreme interest. This is the common interest. This is the decisive. opinion. And until it is assured to the world, the Allies will continue to fight, They must continue to fight, because Coming to details, the flespatch says: “
g without that assurance they would be On November 21st the Peninsula was He estimated, conservatively, the gross guilty of an act almost tantamount to visited by a storm said to be nearly an
war expenditure of Germany up to the suicide. France could not possibly trust precedented for the time of the year end of 1915 at £1,919,000,000 her posterity to s Germany powerful The storm was accompanied by torren
Out of a total of £1,100,000,000 invest enough to repent the crime of 1914, tial rain, which lasted for 24 hours. This ments abroad by Germany £670,000,000 Belgium certainly could never draw an was followed by hard frost and a heavy were unrealisable, while £140,000,000 of easy breath again if such a Germany still blizzard The men of the 9th Corps, colonial investments were worthless existed. And Russie, who desires to -drenched as they were by the rain, suffer-The decline in the exchange value of concentrate all her energies on a develop ed from the subsequent blizzard most the mark, which now stands at an averment of her natural resources, will not severely. Large numbers collapsed from and the failures which are
depreciation of 29 per cent," he said, consent to the existence of Germany - exposure and exhaustion, and in spite of
taking place which would necessitats for her the main nutiring efforts that were made to miti among the large banks, despite the tenance of a huge army on, the Polish gate the suffering, I regret to announce
frantic efforts of the Government to keep frontier that there were 200 deaths from exposure the financial machine going, point to the and over 10,000 sick evacuated during the approach of the greatest financial debacle first few days of December
which the world has seen."
IRELAND AND THE COM-
PULSION BILL.
Mr. Faithfull Beggy Chairman of the Finance Committee of the London Cham ber of Commerce, declared that we were approaching a most interesting phase in German financial operations lime when economic influence was going to tell very seriously upon her
Lord Southwark, who presided, re marked that it would not be business as usual with Germany after the war.
CARDINAL AND NAISER.
At the same time, no thinking man in any of the allied countries belloves that this supreme interest of the war can be attained by a victory, however com plete, over the German armies. The con pleter the victory the longer it would be certainly before the Germans could con- spire and triko again. But if the same Germany remains, sooner or later war will again hurl Europe to the odge of ruin. What is needed, then, to secure the supreme interest of the war is a new Germany,
We hate this war just as much as others do, but our Chancellor does not state before all the world that our ultimate object in this conflict is the destruction of the armed power of England or the suppression of the naval domination of the United Kingdom, whereas in every specchi made by Asquith we are told tha: the Allies are out to encompass the destruction of Germany under arma eutschland unter Waffen) and to cause the suppression of that military greatness which is our guarantee of existence as a nation. No wonder wa Aght Gone is the dream of England that we can be conquered on land or that Germany can be invaded, and we smule when we recall Lord Curzon's prophy of the pennoms of the Bengal Lancers for tering in the breeze as the Indian Arm marches down the Unter den Linden ziu the wake of a conquering Allied Force.
The House of Common opposition. DeMax Osborn describes in the of the German Empire, and unless they are a democratic people with
Forsische Zeitung Cardinal Hartmann's visit to the headquarters of the German army and the Divine service which the Cardinal held. Among those present was
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THE FEESIDENT'S STIPULATION.
If, then, President Wilson would act. The discussion un Sir J. B: Lonsdale's
in a manner acceptable to the Allies, he solion, which sought to bring Ireland
must begin his Peace Proposals with the under the new Compulsory Military Bill,
stipulation that Germany shall be free. watched in torms that fairly repre-
We may state our formula in other That is to say, ho must put it to the sont the views of the various-interests in
terms. The supreme interest of the war German people that he cannot act on- The reasons A given by Mr. Asquith for
is a change in the governmental system their behalf in the counsel of the nations to the inclusion of Ireland the urgency
I have discussed with the statesmen of a Government responsible to their clect of the fleasure, and the desire to avoid
neutral countries the whole question of ed representatives. His justification for in the Emerald Isle in view
the war, and none of them has failed this act is obvious enough The present THE of events are no doubt quite rea-
to agree with me, although many wore Government of Germany has announced son but we recall that before the the Kaiser As the text for his sermon by no means pro-Allice, that had Ger itself independent of International -urgey referred to bad come about, and
prio to the Binn Fein outbreak, the all for God, and all belore God, and and democratie a bodde the British It has broken its pledged word. It has the Cardinal chose: All in God, and many's Parliament been as responsible Law. It has violated solemn agreements. Premist and most of his
• Cabinet
coal with God." At the end of his Parliament there would have been no de openly hoodwinked and deceived this leagues Jand. The reasons given previously were, in the following words
were against, conscription in Tre sermon the Cardinal addreased the Kaiser claration of war in August, 1014. very man who is seeking the peace of of course, different from those stated by
This war is the work of a caste. But the world President Wilson, then, would To your Imperial and Royal Majesty Mr. Asquith in the latest debate, and it I must respectfully express my sincerest for the caste there would have been no be amply justified in issuing & mani- almost goes without saying that had there thanks that your Majesty has been war. And but for the autocratic powers feito to the German nation expressing been no urgency and no outbreak Ire pleased to attend this service. Our Lord of the same caste during the war, stifling his willingness to summon a council of land would not have been included in and Master Jesus Christ said: When free discussion and withholding essen neutral nations for the discussion of the present bill. Most people will agree two or three are gathered together in my tial truth from the people, the feelings posce, provided the German nation with the Prime Minister's belief that the name there am I in the midst of them of the German nation would not now made itself responsible for its Govern- terrible ordeal through which Ireland bas Many, many soldiers are to-day in this be influenced by hatred. It is this caste passed in recent weeks will lead to unity hours of God, gathered together around in Germany which having rushed its in that country and among Irishmen their Sovereign. They with their Bove words of allied statesmen and journs elsewhere, to the ultimate good of the reign have prayed to God that He may lists to make it seem that our intention Empire. It
appears to us that the out- give us glorious victory and speedy peace is the economic and social ruin of the break by the Hinn Fein will prove & This united Srayer contains the guarantee German people. In this way the Ger blessing in disguise, because Ireland is of its granting, and should the Lord man nation, hi is full of Bocialists. being rid of hundreds of the sort of demand further sacrifices from us I at Frels teclf united for the first time, and people whose efforts have been largely this moment will be interpreters of the gives to the Higher Command an almost responsible for ill-feeling towards the Catholic soldiers of the army and unhesitating obedience. It feels that it British realm, wrongly attributed to be solemnly promise before your Majesty is fighting for its life, bulk of Irishmen. The deeds of the real their unerring loyalty in all battles, in To get rid of this caste would be to from wilful or revengeful ruin They all sufferings, in all sacrifices of this warenfranchise the German nation. And would no longer be able to this one death. May the Almighty the All own affairs and burdened by the pro defence against social and economic de I will promise unerringloyalty unto the German nation, leit to manage its the Higher Command is their grosious and All merciful, hear this our digious debt of it late Government, struction. They would begin to think in Majesty, our most gracious and most would be in no mood for adventurelle another direction.
Ulsterite and Bre
Vow May He protect and defend your
mont
do not wish to dogmatises, but 1 have good reasons for thinking that much proposal from the President of the United States would be welcomed by a considerable body of people in Germany It would, at any rate, make it clear to the whole Gorman nation that neutral Power is willing to arbitrate between the contending nations in order to 100-Tor abridge the war and to secure Germany
JOHN
PETROL and
MOTO
Triste to a Nationalist like egen best answer to those who do not believe that the hopes expressed by r., Red mond this week will be fulfilled. The present world crisis in of such propor tions that it puts the question of Ire loved Savereigner May He proleczipur Moreover, most of us whe know It is clear enough that to many Land future into the background. He deur beloved Fatherland, as
anything of the German nation con Gorman President Wilsen would appear would be a pessimist of the most: pro-
Almost at the very moment at which incat that at heart it is a peac loving at a suspect. But I take it that Fra nounced type and an anany of the Em- Cardina Hartmann was delivering this. And domestic nation.... The history of the rident, Wilson will not set, alone. Hit pire who did not wish for Ireland that fulsome address to the Kaiser he fact last forty years is an episode in German policy will surely be to prit himself at org after the war, the peoples of that portion was being revealed that in addition to evolution. It does not rennecoal Carmen the heat of the neutral pations and to dis of the Empire may have found how petty massacring about a million Armenians, character. It rentments German characach with them in all his bices, th were the differences between them, and the Kamera allies, the Turks, had ter perverted by the madness of Pras supreme issue for all of them being the that they will live in the unity which murdered 100,000 Catholics
freedom of mallination and an end of alone is strength.
Minor, including four bishops.
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